Abstracts tagged "obesity and physical activity"

Abstract Number: 2117 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Weight Predicts Back Pain in Young Adult Women, Independent of Physical Activity: Data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health
Sharmayne Brady¹, Sultana Monira Hussain², Wendy Brown³, Stephane Heritier¹, Baki Billah¹, Yuanyuan Wang⁴, Helena Teede^5,6, Donna Urquhart¹ and Flavia Cicutinni¹, ¹Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ²Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ³Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁶Diabetes and Endocrine Unit, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: Low back pain (LBP) causes enormous financial and disability burden worldwide, and therapeutic options have limited efficacy. This burden could be potentially reduced by…
Abstract Number: 2661 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Physical Activity, Adiposity, and The Risk Of Gout In Women: The Nurses Health Study
Hyon Choi^1,2,3, Lindsay C Burns^4,5, Yuqing Zhang⁶, Sharan Rai¹ and Gary Curhan⁷, ¹Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ²Section of Rheumatology and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Research, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ⁵Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁷German Research Center for Environmental Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: There is a remarkable, increasing disease burden of gout and its associated cardiovascular (CV)-metabolic comorbidities in the US. While the benefits of physical exercise…